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Title: The story of the great war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nd destruction of conflict before rightwould triumph. France was the first nation to declare war againstGermany and was followed in the next four days byBelgium, England, Serbia and Russia. Two days afterRussia, Montenegro declared war, and before the year1914 ended Japan joined with these nations against Ger-many. In 1916, Portugal and Italy declared war. In 1917, the number of Germanys enemies doubled,as the following nations in order, made declarations ofwar: the United States, Cuba, Panama, Greece, Siam,Liberia and China. The following year, 1918, and the fourth year of thewar, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Hondurasand Brazil, increased the number of combatants againstthe Germans to twenty-two. Some of these twenty-two nations declared war alsoagainst all of the other Teutonic Allies, Austria, Turkeyand Bulgaria, while some only against Austria, such asthe United States, and others still, only against Turkeyor Bulgaria. Altogether there were twenty-eight nations engaged
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THE DECLARATIONS OF WAR 33 in the war. Roumania and the little nation of San Marino,though fighting in the same cause as England, France andRussia and their Allies, declared war only against iVustria.Can you imagine what this meant if we considerfigures? It meant that 1,575,135,000 inhabitants of theworld were at war, and that thirty millions of these werein the armies at the front. It staggers belief. No wonderit was called the World War! PART IITHE EMBATTLED NATIONS CHAPTER I THE STORY OF BELGIUM I AM going to tell you very briefly the story of thenations that were at war with Germany. This isnot to be an account of their battles at the front,those we shall follow in other chapters, but of the battlesat home which were quite as important in achievingvictory. Unlike all previous wars, the World War was notmerely a battle of armies, but a battle of nations. Youhave, no doubt, very often heard the word morale. Youhave heard it said that the morale of the troops was splen-did, or that t

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